Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - Indianapolis Colts CRAZY Ideas: Creatively Maximizing Anthony Richardson and Offensive Athleticism

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Starting point is 00:00:35 And today's show is brought to you by our pals over at GameTime. Download the GameTime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONN NFL for $20 off of your first purchase. Terms apply. What's up friends. This is Jake Arthur and Zach Hicks of horseshoehuddle.com. I am your resident credentialed media member for the Colts and Zach is the best darn film expert in the game. Actually just dropped something on horseshoehuddle.com today. So go check that out right after this. Today, I'm going to be the idea man. I'm going to send Zach my crazy ideas. He's going to talk me down.

Starting point is 00:01:16 He's going to tell me if it's just unrealistic or whatever, but I'm going to be the guy that's bringing the ideas. Zach is going to tell us how it can actually happen or if it's just stupid and I need to think of something else. So, you know, we're going both sides of the ball today. We're trying to bring unique, fresh ideas to the thing because Shane Steichen is a forward-thinking head coach who isn't afraid to get weird with it. He'll take from anywhere and implement and make it NFL style to how it might actually work on an NFL field. And so that's what we're trying today. And so without further ado, we're going right off the bat. We're meeting old school with new school and we're going triple option flex bone with it. And it's not necessarily the package that is weird so much

Starting point is 00:02:00 as the personnel. And again, I'll preface this with saying you can't just do this against everybody. I think you have to do it against opposing defenses that struggle against the run, struggle moving laterally, or just on film you've identified that they really have a hard time identifying what's happening on options. So you've obviously got Anthony Richardson at quarterback, Jonathan Taylor as your running back,

Starting point is 00:02:22 but then you've got Anthony Gould and perhaps Jason Bean, who could be a special call up from the practice squad. Because I don't think Jason Bean's going to make the roster week one or anything. But that's a guy you can develop on your practice squad. That's probably the Colts intention, day one of them signing him. But call him up from the practice squad and use him in some unique ways against a couple different opponents. But what do we think about this one, Zach? Am I too crazy right off the bat? I mean, I think the Jason Bean thing might be a little crazy, although you are giving me some great ideas for college football 25 when that comes in.

Starting point is 00:03:00 I think I think that's what I'll be rolling. I'll get Jason Bean back there onansas and have some fun with that offense but you know i don't think you're too crazy with you know talking flex bone or pistol type of of of you know schematic things here and going with the triple option out of it because the colts ran quite a bit of triple option last year and we're not even talking you know like you said the old school triple option i'm like we're not talking army navy triple option here we're not talking like under center uh kicking it out and you know tossing it to the outside although again talking college football video games scoring a thousand points a game with my five-star quarterback i made it i made for my navy team on there you know we're talking about you know getting in that

Starting point is 00:03:39 pistol look they're having uh you know running back, having maybe like a Kylan Granson on one side, and then doing some orbit type motion with a Josh Downs or with an Anthony Gould. The Colts did do quite a few triple option things in terms of running the ball and passing the ball in triple option last year. So again, Jason Bean might be a little unrealistic here for talking some some flex bone like pistol type offense stuff but i could see a very realistic version of this being something like you know you have richardson in the pistol formation you have jonathan taylor lined up behind him as the running back kyle and granson or drew ogletree to one side and then you know before the snap you motion taylor up to one side of richardson and then you

Starting point is 00:04:22 have the orbit motion going with downs or coolould behind. And then you can, you know, you can bluff a run there by doing the read option or the triple option with Taylor and having Granson as the lead blocker on to like the left side. And then you can have the orbit motion going to the right and working with Richardson if he pulls it to work as that triple option. So I don't think you're too off with the flex bone stuff or with triple option. I think Jason Bean in there would be really fun though. Like maybe in the preseason when Dean is out there as like the four string quarterback or fifth string quarterback,

Starting point is 00:04:49 then we could see him in some offensive stuff like this. I really hope the Colts do, you know, some of this type of stuff in the preseason with Jason Bean and just let him use those legs. But, you know, I, I think that the overall, like the overall thing that you're talking about, this type of offense and running these like triple option runs and passes is something that Shane Steichen incorporated quite a bit last season for the Colts. And kind of like what we just said, like a lot of Kansas offense in college, too. They did a lot of that last year with the Colts when Richardson was on the field.

Starting point is 00:05:19 Yeah. And I think that is where you get into the realistic part of it is again, old school, you know, that that's kind of a 1920s concept, but now you've got these Uber athletes like Anthony Richardson and Jonathan Taylor. I mean, even, even your blockers, like you mentioned, Kylan Granson drew Ogletree. I mean, Jelani Woods, very good athlete who has a quarterback background can make things somewhat interesting. I mean, there there's, you give yourself a lot of possibilities. And to give context as to why it's Jason Bean, like, if this is your first

Starting point is 00:05:50 time watching the show where you don't know who Jason Bean is, he was Kansas' quarterback, super athletic, gadgety, is going to run with it and turn a corner and burn the defense type of player. He's like he's QB four right now for the Colts, QB four or five. So he's in there in the mix. I think he's a project player, not a roster guy. I mean, he's someone you are going to sit on your practice squad for a year or two and just see what happens. But I mean, you can find some utility with a guy like that in certain instances. And I think Steichen's a guy that, you not afraid to get freaky with and bring some less heralded players

Starting point is 00:06:31 into the fold yeah let me throw out a very realistic fun triple option that includes a passing option here that we could see the Colts do this next year we could see a very unique formation set come out where the Colts are in pistol formation, Jonathan Taylor to one side. So we're talking like a three, three, four yard, you know, shotgun when the pistol and Jonathan Taylor in that short gun set next to Richardson and set up behind him. And then you're getting that orbit motion to have downs or Gould behind him there, like right behind. So you have essentially that three man backfield of Richardson down slash Gould and Taylor. And then you could have like a Michael Pittman Jr. as that sniffer tight end back off the line of scrimmage. We actually saw this on an RPO play against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 12 last year,

Starting point is 00:07:14 where the Colts converted on a fourth and one by tossing it out to Richardson on this type of play. So what you could do, again, you could sell the run action to either down slash Gould or to Taylor and then have Richardson pull it and be the run option or the pass option. You could have them do what they did against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and just pull it out and throw it to a wide open Michael Pittman Jr. On the backside, I think it was like a backside up and out or out and up type of route there, which he converted for a 30 yard gain. Or again, when Richardson's out there, it's very different than Garner Minshew out there because he can actually pull it and run it a little bit. So again, I think when you say the triple option game, the triple option game was very prevalent in the Colts offense last year, even when Richardson wasn't out there, the

Starting point is 00:07:57 Colts are running a ton of triple option. It just wasn't run, run, run, triple option. It was run, pass, run, triple option. We look at the Cleveland Browns game last year where Gardner Minshew had two rushing touchdowns. Those were triple option calls. I know that some people will key them as, you know, RPOs and someone will key them as, you know, just read option type plays. But those were essentially triple option plays where the first option is run to the running back. Second option is pull it and throw. Third option is quarterback run and Gardner Minshew took it for, you know, two touchdowns in

Starting point is 00:08:28 that game with the run option. So the triple option game was really big in the Colts offense last year, and they can make it even more fun and more prevalent this year with a guy like Anthony Gould in the mix with, you know, a Jason Bean in the mix. If he has some fantastic off season and gets in there with Taylor and Richardson, both being healthy. So again, we're having fun today. We're talking Jason Bean being out here. We love Jason Bean. We are an all Jason Bean podcast for sure. But I do think the Colts potential in this triple option game is really big. And the Colts, I mean, not the Colts, but Shane Steichen did a lot of triple option with the Eagles too. So we know he likes to do this type of stuff with his offensive system.

Starting point is 00:09:06 So I do think we'll see a lot of triple option. We'll see a lot of flex bone and pistol type work with the Colts this next season. And I think we're going to see some really cool and fun offensive sets when it comes to Shane Steichen with Anthony Richardson. Jason Bean also brings that element of the pass. You know, you're adding the passing wrinkle in there. I think we all want to see Anthony Richardson catch a tut at some point. Who's going to throw it to him? Let's get him out there for 17 games first, and then we can start talking catch a touchdown. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Yes. Let's get him out there for a full season

Starting point is 00:09:38 first, and then we'll talk about catching touchdowns and having a little more fun with it. Yeah. Speaking of catching touchdowns on our next segment, I'm going to bring to you something I am calling the Redwood personnel package. Whether you're a Hoosier who needs tickets to go see the Reds, Cubs, White Sox shoot, even here locally with the Indy Indians game time is an authorized ticket

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Starting point is 00:12:04 He's got that dad comedy, that dad humor there just deep within him. And I really do love the name for this next one almost as much as I love the idea. So the Redwood Personnel Package in the Red Zone, Jake, tell us all about it. Oh, there's so many layers to that. So the basis to it, we all know that since Chris Ballard got to Indy in 2017, he has a type when it comes to his pass catchers. The bigger, the better, the lengthier, the taller, the vertical leap. He wants tall, explosive pass catchers. Doesn't matter if they're consistently catching the ball or not,

Starting point is 00:12:38 but he has had a type. He's been a little bit in recent years, but we've always thought, okay, great. Those guys can win in 50-50 situations. You can use them in the red zone, but that just really hasn't been the thing. Now, Jonathan Taylor being around and constant change, the quarterback position has kind of changed what you can do there, but like they still have big pass catchers. And I'd like to see him use those guys in the red zone.

Starting point is 00:13:07 We're going to say low red zone, which is, you know, not the goal line, but you're looking at about five to 15 yards ish is what you're looking at that, that area. So you're going 11 personnel is mostly what I think. So you got your inline tight end and you got one running back. You can play with this a little bit, but you could put A.D. Mitchell out of the X, Pittman in the slot, and then either a Pierce or Woods out wide next to the slot there. And then Ogletree is your inline guy. So you've got a bunch of guys who are probably going to be taller than the defender going up against them. You can have a pass catching back there if you want to next to Richardson, but Jonathan Taylor with Anthony Richardson down in the red zone, that is always

Starting point is 00:13:55 going to put the fear of God in the defense and it's going to keep them on their toes. And Taylor can catch fine enough. So, you know, the play action there, you know, that can suck the back end of the defense up to the line of scrimmage, leaving more space for your, you know, your taller pass catchers to go get it. So I think we've all been calling for that for years, like just throw a bunch of your tall pass catchers out there, throw it up to them in the end zone and let them go get it. And this is a way to have it as only tall dudes out there and you're going to throw it. You have the threat of the play action with Jonathan Taylor and Anthony Richardson.

Starting point is 00:14:32 I think there is a lot of stuff that you can do with this. What do you think? Yeah, well, I will say my one pushback is there's a lot of studies shown that the goal line fade or the slot fit, whatever it is in the red zone, is not the greatest play call in the whole wide world. That's why you're going low red zone. It's not a goal line thing. You're going from about 5 to 15 yards, so there's room to do it. But I love where your head's at with this one.

Starting point is 00:14:57 I think there are some really good ideas, and they're maybe not going like 11, or I guess if Woods is out there, it could be tagged as like a 12 personnel type of play there, depending on who's doing the tagging there. You're splitting them out though, by the way. Right, right. You're splitting them out.

Starting point is 00:15:10 Yeah, it just depends on who's doing the tagging, how you're going to tag that there. But yeah, no, I do love the 11, 12 personnel. I love the big bodies out there. We could even go even more crazy with it by going like 12 or 13 personnel. No one below 6'4 is allowed on the field during this personnel set like that that was no shorties on the field whatsoever I guess Jonathan Taylor's below 6'4 but I digress I digress that's not the point of this here but I do love the idea of getting these

Starting point is 00:15:36 big body guys out there because look that's what these guys are all here for Mitchell and Pittman are great with their body control and their strength and their physicality and going up and getting the ball. We saw what Jelani Woods back when he was healthy two years ago, how good he was in the red zone, the couple of chances that he got. I mean, I think he had two like red zone fade touchdowns that year. He had one against the Kansas City Chiefs that won the game in the final seconds of the game there. So these guys have shown that ability to make plays in the red zone. Oh yeah. And then we have Jonathan Taylor and Anthony Richardson, where if you can just spread things out and just let them do their thing, I think that that's going to be the main selling point in the red zone this year and what's going to lead to a great red zone success.

Starting point is 00:16:16 But when it comes to Shane Steichen in the red zone, we saw some fantastic things last year, especially early when Anthony Richardson was healthy. We saw that 13 personnel set where Richardson was, you know, kind of the furthest man back in the backfield with all the dudes in front of him. And it was at that RPO type play. It was such a cool designed play. And I still have no clue where he got it from. I tried to find sources at the college football level and I have no clue where he got it, but the Colts are what four for four on it last year when they ran it. So I wouldn't put it past Shane Steichen to come up with something similar to this, where just finding ways to create those uneven matchups for opposing teams and take advantage of the low red situations.

Starting point is 00:16:55 I do think a really fun element that we could add to this, though, is being a little bit more heavy with it. Again, being like 23 personnel or 13 personnel type stuff and having more of these tight ends on the field like having like what if we did something like this jake where we had jelani woods all by himself backside we're sending him z z z receiver and we're saying you know what if we see just the one-on-one matchup there we want to throw the jump ball five six seven yards out that's an option if our quarterback feels good about taking that but in in you know more in line more inside you have like drew ogletree will mallory and then if you want to be really fun with it you can have michael pitman jr inside as well being more of

Starting point is 00:17:35 that sniffer guy and he can be more of your motion guy moving around in the line being he can be cracking back he can be your your rpo option on the backside. That way your defense has to be aware of him. And then you're doing, you know, primarily running the ball out of that. You're primarily going to be running it with Taylor and Richardson. But you have those two passing threats of Pittman moving around pre-snap. And then obviously the Woods option on the backside there. I think something like that could be really cool and still keep with that Redwood personnel package. Where it's like, look, all these like 6'4 foot four six foot five dudes are on the field and they're

Starting point is 00:18:08 going to still be to a speed but they have those jump ball capabilities and those capabilities to move these guys around a little bit pitman being the smallest participant in that sounds awesome because honestly like him essentially being your josh downs like down there like i really like that a lot. I think you could even get Kylan Granson involved in this, coming out of the backfield. Like, there's endless possibilities. Like, he's not one of your taller tight ends. But, I mean, certainly he's one of your bigger pass catchers in general.

Starting point is 00:18:37 So, I really like that. I like the idea of bringing this up, but giving specific examples of how this could work. Because so many people are like, I like Pierce's 6-3-6-4, throw him out there and just let him catch. And so it's like, okay, well, it's not always that simple. And like we mentioned, goal line fades. There's a reason the Colts don't do that.

Starting point is 00:19:01 They're very successful running the ball closer to the end zone. I mean, Jonathan Taylor knows for the end zone. Anthony Richardson knows for the end zone. But I think this is a way to make it to where it gives you wrinkles when you're not knocking on the doorstep, essentially. And you could still use the passing game and use the big, tall guys that you've invested in to their strengths. Yeah, I do think the Colts are going to lean on their run game quite a bit this next season

Starting point is 00:19:27 when it comes to the low red, or at least the RPO or triple option type game, because you have those two dynamic threats in Richardson and Taylor. But when you add a guy like A.D. Mitchell, when you're getting a guy like Jelani Woods back out there, two guys who have the potential to be fantastic red zone targets with their size and athleticism it does open up a little bit more to what you can do and again if teams are starting to key on richardson because he's such a devastating red zone threat like we saw last year i think he had what one drive that got to like the low red area that didn't end up in a touchdown if you see teams

Starting point is 00:19:58 start just loading up the box then you have those those options on the outside where it's like hey mitchell's gonna have a two-way go by himself on the outside against the corner. Oh, Pittman's going to have a two way go out there. Josh Downs is going to have a slot corner and off man coverage in the red zone. OK, we're going to go that way. Jelani Woods by himself with a five foot ten corner. Like if those things open up because Richardson's such a devastating run threat, then just make sure red zone offense so much better. Yeah, I am in total

Starting point is 00:20:26 agreeance so coming up next this one is probably the least likely of the bunch uh it's basically a small speedy do or die all or nothing defensive package okay zach so this this one so this started out as like a small idea and it just snowballed from there. And this is one we've actually been talking about a couple of weeks and I finally settled it into what I think I would want it to look like here. So the purpose of this defensive package, you cannot just use this against everybody. This is for offenses with, who are using smaller tight ends and receivers, maybe spread it out a little bit. These are, these are for opposing offenses with a mind on throwing the ball and they don't

Starting point is 00:21:14 have those big tree trunk receivers that the Colts have. So you're doing this to keep up and, you know, swarm, but to also make big plays Because the risk on this is you're going to get cooked because you're small. You have guys playing out of their normal position. The upside to it is, though, you're very, very fast. You could get to the ball pretty quickly as long as it's not downfield over your head. And then you can make plays because a lot of the guys involved in this are playmakers who can take the ball away. So you're looking at your defensive line.

Starting point is 00:21:46 Zach is going to explain how these guys could line up, specifically in formations as well, if you just can't see how this works. So the defensive line, your ends are going to be Samson, Ebukom, and Liatulatu. And then inside, you're going with DeForest Buckner basically as your one tech, and then Dayo as your three tech. Linebackers, Julian Blackman as your Mike, and then Jalen Carlisle as your Will, because those guys are going to supply you with some pass defense there in the middle.

Starting point is 00:22:16 Your corners is pretty much normal. Juju Brents, whoever wins out between Dallas Flowers and Jalen Jones, and then Kenny Moore in the nickel. And then your safeties are Nick Cross and Ronnie Harrison, which is actually something we saw in the final week of the season. So again, the purpose of this, guys who could take the ball away, guys who are going to get to the ball quickly. So it's very small.

Starting point is 00:22:40 This one is one where you line up that way, and then you see the offense hurry their 220 pound running back onto the field and then you call a timeout because it's going to be a bloodbath. But yeah, I want to see this happen how I intend it to be used and I want to see it successfully. What do you think? Yeah, so you're talking about a 4-1-6 kind of defense here. I mean, again, you can change some things a little bit,1-6 kind of defense here I mean again there you can change some things a little bit but it's kind of how you tag it here I probably wouldn't have Ronnie Harrison out there personally in this because it kind of defeats the purpose because

Starting point is 00:23:12 then why wouldn't you just have Harrison at Mike instead of Blackman you know and I know you just wanted to be uh you wanted to have fun with it Blackman's a chess piece you can move him around yeah I think I would probably have I think what the Colts would probably do is Rodney Thomas at free safety and Nick Cross at strong safety in this scenario here. But communication's important in this instance. Harrison could take the ball away. That's true.

Starting point is 00:23:36 He did show that he could do that last year. But yeah, I think the Colts, I mean, look, the Colts did run a lot of dime last year. I mean, it wasn't a ton of dime. Like we're not talking like they're the Minnesota Vikings here, where the Vikings are running dime, you know, like 20% of the time. And they were blitzing like 100% of the time out of it. But the Colts did run a lot of dime last year.

Starting point is 00:23:55 And they were actually the second most blitz-heavy team out of dime personnel because what they realized last season, and maybe they kind of don't do that this next year because lots of you they think can just turn it on as a pass rusher. what they realized last season and and maybe they they kind of don't do that this next year because lots of you they think can just turn it on as a pass rusher but the reason why they did that is more speed rushing the passer you get to the passer quicker disrupt the pass uh it can be more effective than bringing a linebacker or bringing an extra defensive end or anything like that so uh the colts did run a good amount of dime last year they blitzed a good bit out of it

Starting point is 00:24:22 uh so i wouldn't throw this package completely away and say there's going to be no dime um in like even dime personnel packages like this i mean we even saw some three safety sets last year when they were trying to get nick cross onto the field uh with rodney thomas and julian blackman where nick cross was essentially playing you know weak side linebacker next desire franklin on some of these like really long third and 16 third and 17 type plays he made a couple big tackles on on plays like that last year so I don't think this is out of the ordinary too much I do think something we could see from the Colts in terms of getting like some really wonky like dime packages out there is going more like 335 I guess that's more nickel but like you can go 326 or something like that out

Starting point is 00:25:05 there with the team where you know I saw a couple personnel packages last year where it was three down defensive linemen you got I think it was like Quidipe, Dayo Dangbo and DeForest Buckner down and then Grant Stewart would come on the field and you know he's blitzing because he can't do anything else on defense besides blitz which was really fun and then you would sneak a backside corner like a Kenny Moore off the backside or or you could even bring six guys. You can bring a Kenny Moore and bring, you know, Julian Blackman if he's in the box there and just bring all that pressure to make sure that you're getting after the quarterback on third, 15, third and 16 and getting that ball out of his hands quickly. That's where we really see the Colts bring stuff like this. So like you

Starting point is 00:25:42 mentioned at the top of this one, Jake, the Colts are not going to bring this out against a base offense or anything or like an offense that's, you know, on first down or second down in the first quarter of a game. But I do think if you're looking at like, you know, do or die, the offense has to convert in third and 15 in the fourth quarter, you could see the Colts bring out a package like this. And honestly, it wouldn't shock me if this package was a blitz package, If it was going to be a very heavy blitz package and you see like a Ronnie Harrison come down from the strong safety and come off the edge and blitz along with a Julian Blackman blitz

Starting point is 00:26:13 and then you're having a six-man rush with Carlisle and the rest of these defensive backs sitting back around the sticks on like third and 15, you could totally see a package like this happening under Gus Bradley. Weird wrinkle. One guy I struggled to put in here. Maybe you kick Quiddie Paye inside as well.

Starting point is 00:26:31 I mean, that's something it's not done a ton of in the NFL, but I mean, he did it at Michigan. He moved around plenty. You kick him inside. You could maybe make him, but it's like, do you trust him more than Dio? Like is Dio way better suited for that role and then Mike Abraham honestly if you wanted to put him you know back in the secondary as a ball hawk type you could do that as well if you want to add weirder wrinkles to it yeah well and also you could put like a guy like Jalen Simpson out there depending on obviously depending on how good

Starting point is 00:27:00 his camp is uh for instance but like a Jalen Simpson is really intriguing here because of the free safety background. Yeah. To where, you know, if you want like like the Colts have this thing called sticks defense. So on like third and 20, what Gus Bradley would do, it's very different from what you're talking about here. I know I'm going off on a tangent, but they'll have three like a three man pass rush and then they'll have eight defensive backs sitting at the sticks. Or it'll be like six defensive backs and two linebackers just sitting at the sticks. The Colts do this quite a bit, actually. It's really funny if you go back and watch film.

Starting point is 00:27:30 If they're ever against like a third and 20, they'll just do this, right? They'll sit everybody back and then they'll have one free safety back over the top in case somebody, for whatever reason, just runs past the guys at the sticks. You could have a really rangy player like a Jalen Simpson back there and then you could have the other guys underneath you know being your more ball hawk like you know on ball type guys so I think Simpson could get some snaps of free safety this year even if he is a corner just because you can be more unique with your defensive coverage that way we also saw sometimes last year with the Colts where Kenny Moore would rotate back into the two high looks

Starting point is 00:28:04 that they were trying to do you know they bring Julian Blackman down the blitz or to cover underneath and just to add variety to the defense they would rotate back Kenny Moore you could see that with like a Simpson if he makes the roster he could get out there and rotate back to being a single high guy or rotate back to being a two high guy because that safety background so having guys with that versatile background could add to more nuanced things you can do on the back end with your secondary. Yeah, I like, you know, especially the last couple of weeks of the season, I felt like the Colts got a little more unique with it, at least defensively.

Starting point is 00:28:36 So I'm looking forward to seeing some new wrinkles added to it. Definitely you guys, throughout the entire show, I hope you are just throwing in your weird ideas that you've got for it as well. We didn't even get to all the ones that we have. So I mean, if you guys have any unique ideas or really like cool different things you want to see the Colts do, throw them in the comments for sure. Yes, please throw in the comment section how bad you want to see Zyra Franklin be the full-time fullback or Grover Stewart being the full-time fullback. Someone's got to do it. Atatomi being the full-time fullback,

Starting point is 00:29:08 that would be a fun one with his athleticism. Let's just bring fullback back to Indianapolis and have one of these defensive guys be that. That would be really fun. But you guys let us know in the comments section below. Before we get out of here, I do want to remind you guys that Locked On has launched the first ever National Sports 24-7 streaming channel on

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